I know.. But still. Denmark has 5.6 million people, USA has 325 million people. We have 3 teams in 3 teams in top16 and 16 danish players on top16 teams. USA has two teams with only 9 players in total in top16.
It’s not like CS Go is a big deal in Denmark, so should be possible to get more out of the US. I know it can’t be compared at all, but I have played with american players in matchmaking. Most of them either don’t know tactics or are dickheads. Sorry to say since I like americans in real life.

Idk if it was your PM that tweeted and congratulated Astralis on winning the major, but that would never happen here and parents over in Denmark I'm guessing are more likely to support their kids that go into non-traditional fields like esports. I know the U.S has a large population, but most people who game in the U.S I would guess use consoles. Note this is all anecdotal evidence, I remember in high school most people my age that played games were on consoles, and only a few used PC's to game, and most people in my high school didn't even play video games all that much.

Esports in the US are dominated by consoles. I don't know why people don't get this.
Halo and CoD were the beginning of American interest. As well as fighting games to a certain extent.
Why doesn't Denmark have the top CoD teams is my question? Like seriously is so obvious I don't know why we have this revolving conversation. Where you people think Faze and Optic came from?

No it's not bro. Sweden will get better because Sweden is still reaping its own talent. NA is shit and will forever be shit because they want to shortcut everything by just buying good EU players all the time. A region that just imports all of its talents will never be good on the world stage

Good players in NA:
Twistzz
Naf
Elige
Nitro
Autimatic
Rush
Wardell
Tarik
Stewie2k
Brehze
nathe
cerq(i know idc)
stanislaw
shazahm
yay
androidx23
sick
Taco or any brazilian/european that is good and speaks proper english
now either make a team that doesnt choke, or stop choking in the good teams

Yes sure but bringing in EU players hurts the NA region. We might be good short term but thats a spot that some NA player could have taken. Then the team that said player left would have to sign a new, younger NA player and the cycle repeats, with young talent being funneled up into the scene.
TACO might be an exception since there are no notable NA support players in MDL. I could search but right now I'm focusing on looking for AWPers and other rifle talent.

the thing is, there are not too many veteran NA players that know what it takes to win the big lans and not choke. That is why I think it is important to bring in more experienced EU players. For example, Taz was a good addition to Kinguin because he brought experience. Once players like the Liquid and NRG players learn not to choke then they can be the ones who teach the youngsters on how to stay in the mental game, but for now they need people like Taco who have the experience in the big ones.

There are plenty of veterans in the NA CS scene.
EnVyUs - jdm Cutler Semphis + Eley their coach
coL - stanislaw + Rambo (I mean, coL brought in this young guy yayster and yay has popped the fuck off for them. Seemed to work good)
C9 - Skadoodle flusha RUSH
Ghost - steel + JamezIRL (Surrounded by super young players, still has done really notable things with his lineup)
NRG - FugLy daps + ImAPet (Took young guys Ethan CeRq and Brehze and made a massively successful for NA standards team on the international stage. Still some choke problems but we aren't expecting perfection as there is no team in NA that is perfect. Not even Liquid)
Rogue - kRYSTAL Hiko
Pretty much every NA pro team has a veteran who has seen tons of stages and has played amongst massive crowds.

thats my point, the vets you named consisted of flusha and krystal who were brought from eu. As for jdm cutler and semphis, just because they are old does not mean they know what it takes to win and close out a series. stanislaw famously choked at big lans, same with daps and fugly. Hiko and Steel are kinda legit i guess

That EnVy roster will not be existing for long, so we can always replace flusha and kRYSTAL with someone from one of those teams. Could also replace Golden with FNS (you probably think hes shit, I think hes highly underrated).
Where did stan choke at LANs? On Liquid? The Liquid that is still choking even when he left? On OpTic where they won big events? On compLexity with much worse firepower compared to the teams he was facing? To reduce choke doesn't suddenly make you able to beat the likes of FaZe MiBR Liquid or top teams with any sort of young talent. If we took the four youngest, best up and coming talent in NA right now and taught them the means to reduce their choke to the lowest common denominator, they probably still wouldn't win anything.

There are a ton of vets.
Elige, Nitro, Autimatic, Tarik, Stewie2k, Hiko, JDM, Fugly, Daps etc etc etc
If you've been playing for three years you are a vet. Almost all these players have won trophies or been in huge spots as well. Losing doesn't mean you choked necessarily.